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Jul 8, 2015

This week I am posting the video directly from the Youtube channel to the blog, so we will see how this goes! I am a little more weary of experimenting with technology, but constantly try and force myself to keep up with these new buttons and gadgets that are available out there :)

Continuing the encaustic embedding theme this month with some fun shapes and textures.

There are so many ways you can go with just these 2 elements ( string or twine, and old magazines) and embedding them into the encaustic surface . I am showing one fun way, but I can feel a whole series brewing with these fun items!

Here is the supplies I used this week:

4x4x2" unprimed cradle board

painters tape to mask off sides

vintage magazine cuttings

twine

R and F encaustic medium

Burnt sienna and black Sennelier oil paint sticks

heat gun (Wagner)

clay tools and scraper

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Jun 25, 2015

I began this small work with the intention of exploring mark making with inks, graphite, and oil sticks in the wax .

I started with a 4x4 x2" cradle board.

I also wanted to experiment with adding some graphite powder to the encaustic gesso and see what would come of it.

After the gesso mixture dried on the panel, the more I sanded it, the more I loved how the graphite darkened in some places , and showed the brush texture. I purposely used the stiffest ,scratchiest , oldest brush , ( that I had not yet ruined) that I could find anticipating that I would enjoy any texture it gave with the graphite gesso mix.

The Supplies I Used This Week:

4x4x2" unprimed wood cradle board

R and F encasutic gesso

graphite powder

graphite crayon

clay tools

clay scraper

oil paint stick white

india inks : white, black, red

baby wipes

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